Civil War 2.0 Weather Report, Force Assessment

“That way management can assess who’s valuable and who’s expendable.  It’s just business.” – American Beauty

There’s a new urban reality show where judges free inmates who like fishing, called “Off the Hook”.

  1. Those who have an opposing ideology are considered evil.
  2. People actively avoid being near those of opposing ideology.  Might move from communities or states just because of ideology.
  3. Common violence. Organized violence is occurring monthly.
  4. Common violence that is generally deemed by governmental authorities as justified based on ideology.
  5. Opposing sides develop governing/war structures. Just in case.
  6. Open War.

Volume VIII, Issue 4

Most memes except for the clock and graphs are “as found”.  I have maintained the Clock O’Doom at 9., but given the lower numbers on the indexes and the lower number of violence and censorship events, will likely lower the level next month if violence stays low.  Beware: the number can climb quickly.

My advice remains.  Avoid crowds.  Get out of cities.  Now.  A year too soon is better than one day too late.

In this issue:  Front Matter – Chinese Assessment, Civil War 2.0  – Violence and Censorship Update – Misery Index – Updated Civil War 2.0 Index – Links

Front Matter

Welcome to the latest issue of the Civil War II Weather Report.  These posts are different than the other posts at Wilder Wealthy and Wise and consist of smaller segments covering multiple topics around the single focus of Civil War 2.0, on the first or second Monday of every month.  I’ve created a page (LINK) for links to all of the past issues.  Also, subscribe because you’ll join nearly 920 other people and get every single Wilder post delivered to your inbox, M-W-F at or before 7:30AM Eastern, free of charge.

Chinese Assessment, Civil War 2.0 

This is a longer piece.  Obviously, I don’t have a friend in the PLA’s Institute of War Studies who sent this to me (THANK YOU SO MUCH CHANG!) but I do have a large number of readers from the People’s Republic of China, so here’s a shout out to you guys!

Part of being in the United States is that we’re invested in the outcome of a potential future Civil War in a big way.  The Chinese?  They’re interested.  So, I tried to come up with what a somewhat neutral third party would say about Civil War 2.0.  I do know this about militaries, they have plans for everything, so I know that China has a document based on a future American Civil War, so I thought, Wilder, what if you wrote one from China’s perspective?  Here’s my attempt.  It’s dry.  Only one joke.

People’s Liberation Army
Institute of War Studies
For:  General Staff/Theater Strategic Research Cell
INTERNAL DRAFT – NOT FOR RELEASE

Subject:  Possible forms of large-scale internal armed conflict in the United States; relative combat potential; implications for our strategy
Character:  Contingency estimate and outcome review.  This is not a strategic directive.
Constraints:  No actual names of U.S. persons.  No executable strike list against the U.S. homeland.

  1. Mission and Purpose of the Estimate

This estimate reviews four questions:

  1. If the United States enters a large internal conflict between an inland nationalist, armed civil-society coalition and an urban–institutional–transnational coalition, what is the balance of war potential?
  2. On what time scale could the conflict unfold, and how cities and logistics could fail?
  3. How would outside states recognize, hedge, or feed both sides?
  4. What window and what risk does this create for our main strategic direction: Taiwan, the Western Pacific, energy and grain routes, and dollar clearing?

An American internal war is not two field armies advancing on a front, instead it is the splitting of a state machine.  From our viewpoint, the decisive prizes are fragments of nuclear command authority, which government foreign nations will still treat as a government that can sign contracts and that can keep ports and bulk food moving.  A rapid national reunification by either coalition is usually worse for us than a long dual-authority stalemate that cripples external power projection.

  1. Situation and planning assumptions

Assumption A.  The trigger is domestic:  a disputed transfer of power, a federal–state armed standoff, a nationwide attempt to confiscate arms or starve ammunition supply that states refuse, or a systematic civil-liberties crackdown that produces organized nullification.

Assumption B.  The active-duty force does not split cleanly along electoral maps.  State National Guard, some reserve components, veterans, and local law enforcement will show regional tilt.

Assumption C.  In the opening period, intercity trucking and regional electric service are interrupted for days and possibly weeks.  This follows from just-in-time urban design and capitalist logistics.  It does not require a precision sabotage campaign to create failure.

Assumption D.  We do not seek American territory. The task is window management, risk hedging, and competitive shaping.

The United States has on the order of 340 million people. Partisan identification is close. Cities hold population and a majority of output. The interior holds land, calories, and most onshore hydrocarbons. That is the base conflict map.

  1. Identification of the Two Coalitions
Label Center of Gravity Geographic Weight
Red Force, the state-rights /traditional Americans Rural and small-town population, a majority of veterans by affiliation, higher personal firearms density, many state executives and county law officers in the interior Heartland, Plains, Mountain West, much of the South and Appalachia, growing Sun Belt interiors
Blue Force, urban/ institutional/ globalist Dense metros, universities, much of media, ports, hospitals, finance, a large share of the federal civilian apparatus Coastal and Great Lakes cores, a few deep-blue states, the diplomatic and dollar-clearing nodes

 

  1. Relative Combat Potential

4.1 Numbers

Blue Force has the larger share of people and of high-value economic output in compact space. Red Force has the larger share of land and of counties that produce food and fuel.  Raw headcount favors Blue. Staying power on territory favors Red.

4.2 Age and Manpower Quality

Younger urban cohorts lean toward Blue, especially young women. Older cohorts and a large share of military-age males with weapons experience lean toward Red. Red Force’s core is older. Blue Force’s demographic is younger and has no experience with hardship, especially in field conditions.

4.3 Means

The largest force asymmetry is distributed firearms and veteran skill on the Red side.  This is counterbalanced by the institutional, financial, medical, and information infrastructure on the Blue side.

Personal gun ownership is on the order of twice as common in the general voter on the Red side as in the Blue aligned voters.  A key factor is the he national stock of firearms is measured in the hundreds of millions.  However, active-duty United States military services remain the only formation that can move at continental scale with aviation, logistics, and nuclear custody.  Their loyalty is the war’s hinge but it is not sure that they will follow either coalition.

4.4 Cohesion

Red Force coheres around land, faith networks, veterans’ organizations, and distrust of coastal institutions.  It fractures around personalities and between libertarian, populist, and traditional-conservative currents.

Blue Force coheres through bureaucracies, universities, city governments, and remaining national media.  It fractures among socialists, corporate liberals, and identity factions the moment scarcity arrives.

4.5 Command

No single chain exists at the start.

  • Governors command Guard forces until a federalization fight is won or lost.
  • Active-duty officers swear to a constitution, not a faction.
  • Blue Force has more practice running large organizations and talking to foreign ministries.
  • Red Force has more small-unit and land skill and more of the interior’s elected law officers.

Expected command picture:  federated, messy, multiple “capitals,” local strongmen.

4.6 Public Order

Urbanization predicts recorded violent crime better than party label. Dense Blue cores will face faster public-order failure when lights and food stop.  Rural Red areas will face their own disorder:  freelancers, score-settling, and local bosses.  Neither coalition is “the professional army” and neither is “the mob.” Both will generate both, though Red coordination structures are likely more resilient to the certain outages of power and information and less prone to the civil violence commonly seen among blacks.

  1. Environment: terrain, logistics, systems

5.1 Terrain

Continental distances, the Rockies, the Appalachians, the Mississippi system, deserts, and northern winter all punish long supply lines.  The countryside is hard to occupy.  The city is impossible to live in without electricity and trucks.

5.2 Food and fuel

California leads agricultural production on a per dollar basis, but most food (grain, oilseeds, cattle, hogs) is produced in the Midwest and in the Plains.  Metros run on continuous inbound trucks.  Retail inventories of food in large cities are measured in days.  Western and southwestern cities are more exposed to food-supply shock than Midwestern and northeastern cities.

Onshore oil and gas are concentrated in Texas, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Wyoming, and similar interior producers.  Coastal Blue states are large consumers and are generally net energy importers.

5.3 Power

The bulk power system consists of three grids Eastern, Western, ERCOT.  Texas is nearly an electrical island.  Peak imports into California have already been source of unreliably during long durations of elevated temperatures.  Urban counties show higher outage burden than rural counties in recent published studies.  When bulk power fails, water pumps, sewage, hospitals, elevators, and card payments fail behind it.

5.4 Chokepoints of national significance

Interstate junctions, rail hubs, river locks, pipelines, a small number of container ports, and a small number of food-distribution counties. Blue Force lives at the receiving end of these systems. Red Force lives nearer many of the producing nodes.

  1. Urban System Under Multi-Day to Multi-Week Loss of Power and Food Shipments

Planning assumption: inbound freight and bulk power are unreliable for days and possibly weeks. This is enough to break modern metros.

“Collapse” means loss of municipal control and mass uninhabitability.

“Hold” means some authority, a port or river, nearby production, or milder climate keeps a fraction of the population in place.

6.1 Blue-aligned cores most likely to collapse first

  • Desert metros (Las Vegas type; Phoenix type).  No local water or calories at metro scale.
  • Hyper-dense coastal islands (New York type).  Four to five days of point-of-sale food in official city studies; extensive use of bridges and tunnels; and apartments that need electricity for water.
  • Inner Bay Area type.  Peninsula geography, little staple production, dependence on Central Valley corridors and imported peak power.
  • Los Angeles basin type.  Conditionally fragile.  Nearby valleys can feed it only if corridors and pumps still work.  Population scale and imported water make simultaneous failure catastrophic.
  • South Florida strip type.  Peninsula, heat, storms, imported food.
  • Boston or New England type.  Winter energy tightness and thin local staples.
  • Federal district core.  Political value high, local calories near zero. Survival depends on neighboring state authorities.
  • Hawaii. On the order of nine-tenths of food imported. Sealift and air cargo stop, stores empty in days.

6.2  Blue-aligned cores that may hold

  • Chicago type. The country’s central food and freight node beside Illinois–Iowa production.  Lake water still needs treatment and pumps. If farms still sell into the city, it lasts. If the farms withhold, it becomes New York.
  • Twin Cities type. Grain and protein nearby; winter without gasoline is the killer.
  • Sacramento type. Sits in the Valley rather than at the end of a long hose.
  • Willamette/Portland type. Actual nearby mixed farming.
  • San Diego type. Naval and port footprint; milder climate than desert metros; survival rises if naval authority keeps the harbor working and Los Angeles out.
  • Philadelphia–Baltimore type. Mid-Atlantic farms and ports; less isolated than Manhattan, yet in the midst of collapse already.
  • Great Lakes rust-belt cores. Poor social baseline, better food geography than the Southwest.
  • Atlanta type and other blue city halls inside mixed or red states. Resilience is political: the surrounding state may provision the tax base or quarantine the enclave.
  • Front Range type. Some nearby production; long truck bridge; water is the weakness.

None of these are self-sufficient if the regional truck and grid system is actually down. A collapsed city is not automatically captured by Red Force, it may simply cease to be a city.

  1. Victory Objectives

Neither coalition can cheaply occupy the other’s core terrain.

A Red Force win looks like: enough territory and calories to deny Blue a working national government; surviving state machines; a settlement, partition, or “restored constitution” that Red Force recognizes.  Occupying hostile coastal megacities would consume Red Force.

A Blue Force win looks like: retention of federal forms, the dollar, ports, and foreign recognition; isolation of interior resistance.  Occupying the interior against a dispersed armed population would consume Blue Force.

Most likely military-political outcome: multiple authorities, a humanitarian disaster, a poorer and less sovereign United States.

  1. External Actors

Outside countries will not “join a side” as in a treaty war.  They will protect their interests and choose to deal with the winner that best serves their national interests.

8.1 China’s Preferred Outcome

A United States that can no longer concentrate power in the Western Pacific, while still buying our goods and servicing dollar assets until a substitute currency system is in place.

  • A fast Red Faction victory is dangerous if the survivor is coherent, energy-rich, hostile over Taiwan and technology, and still willing to use export controls and naval power.  It is less dangerous if that survivor withdraws from Asia.
  • A fast Blue Faction victory is dangerous if it restores a working Pentagon, alliances, and export-control regimes and insists on maintaining its cultural hegemony.
  • A long stalemate is the best of the bad outcomes:  while markets seize, naval fleets argue over which orders are legitimate.  During this period, Taiwan is isolated and external military force projection become impossible for the United States.

Therefore, the rational course for China is dual-track:  public language of stability and non-interference.  But we will fund either side with covert information, finance, and selected commodities to prevent a short decisive win.  We engage in recognition of whoever holds the UN seat, but will continue to provide enough life support to the other fragment to keep the split active.  We buy soy, pork, and energy from the interior and sell finished goods into coastal metros.

A famine that kills our suppliers and a coastal crash that kills our consumers are both to be avoided.  The best condition would be a managed paralysis.

8.2  Goals of Countries Hostile to the United States

Russia/Iran/Best Korea:  Aligned with China in wanting a weaker United States, and longer term Russia has designs on Alaska.

8.3 Neighbors of the United States

Mexico will prefer a Blue Force victory due to a need for an outlet for their excess population and as a source of funding.

Canada is more tightly bound to the United States since they are wired into the electrical grid, and export automobiles, grain and energy.  A non-functional United States is an existential Canadian problem, though a potential Chinese foothold on the continent.

8.4 U.S. allies

Pacific:  Japan, ROK, Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand

They ask one question:  is there still a navy and a nuclear deterrent that will appear in the Pacific?  They will follow continuing command authority.  Their only win is for Red Force to win decisively and keep the fleet intact.  A Blue Force that holds ports but loses interior fuel and manpower looks will provide no support.  They have little ability to influence the events of a civil war in the United States.

European Union and the United Kingdom.

There is a cultural affinity with Blue Force.  They are in terror of Red Force abandoning NATO; and feel equal terror of a collapsed America.  They have little ability to influence the events of a civil war in the United States.

  1. Wild Cards
    Urban gangs and border cartels.
    Winter, hurricanes, western fire and drought.
    Nuclear and strategic-asset custody.
    Dollar collapse.
    A disease event on top of disorder.
  2. Implications for Our Strategy

10.1 The window

A United States arguing over which fragment owns the Pacific fleet is a United States that cannot run a two-theater war.  That is the operational meaning of this contingency for the first island chain.  As cracks open, we should have plans in place to take advantage of the advantage this will give us.

10.2 Risks to us

  • Financial contagion that destroys our reserve portfolio and export demand.
  • Loss of U.S. soy, pork, and energy shipments if interior authorities stop exporting or if ports freeze.
  • A surviving American fragment that is poorer, angrier, less legally constrained, and considering expansion.
  • Allied emergency coordination that freezes the map against us (United States bases stay manned by European allies).  This is unlikely.

10.3 Recommended posture for study

  1. Treat prolonged dual authority as the outcome to shape toward.
  2. Prepare recognition and trade channels for more than one U.S. fragment (ports, grain houses, energy terminals) without early exclusive commitment unless that commitment comes with extraordinary opportunity.
  3. Insulation of our own grain, energy, and payment exposure to a dollar seizure or a Gulf–Pacific simultaneous crisis.  Continue to build stockpiles of critical minerals and commodities.
  1. Estimate in One Paragraph

Red Force is stronger in distributed arms, veterans, land, food, and hydrocarbons.

Blue Force is stronger in people, money, ports, formal institutions, and the existing alliance-and-dollar network.

Neither can cheaply occupy the other’s core.  Desert and hyper-dense coastal Blue metros fail first when power and trucks stop.  Blue Midwest lake-and-rail metros fail later.

Outside powers will not crown a winner if they are thinking clearly.  Our interest is a United States that cannot concentrate, not a United States that has been replaced by a single hostile survivor.

Violence and Censorship:

War was declared on Spain, yet they’re not fighting back:

Ireland . . . excellent!

England, however, hates itself and is censoring it’s national symbol:

Never forget, the GloboLeftElite hates you.

Misery Index

The new Trump administration is shown in red.  Results continue to be much better than Biden’s misery.

But all those data center jobs?

Updated Civil War II Index

The Civil War II graphs are an attempt to measure four factors that might make Civil War II more likely, in real time.  They are broken up into Violence, Political Instability, Economic Outlook, and Illegal Alien Crossings.  As each of these is difficult to measure, I’ve created for three of the four metrics some leading indicators that combine to become the index.  On illegal aliens, I’m just using government figures.

Violence:

Violence indicators are way down.  Too hot for all that?

Political Instability:

Down is more stable, and it went down again this month to a near-record low.

Economic:

The economy ticked up slightly last month but I’m concerned.

Illegal Aliens:

Still the near lowest level since the Weather Report started, but remember who they are.

LINKS

The links are again done by Ricky this month.  Thanks, Ricky!

BAD GUYS

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/inflection-point-arrives-dsas-unofficial-america-hating-communist-mascot
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/the-dsa-is-using-coffee-with-comrades-and-socialist-softball-to-convert-the-curious-ffcbcc65
https://nypost.com/2026/08/15/us-news/socialist-ny-lawmaker-emily-gallagher-says-shoplifters-have-a-biological-need-to-steal/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democratic-socialists-openly-call-erasure-constitutional-government
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/inflection-point-arrives-dsas-unofficial-america-hating-communist-mascot
https://twitter.com/i/status/2042031825887936702
https://modernity.news/2026/09/05/copycat-clancy-horror/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/08/09/mexican-influencers-murdered-live-streams/

GOOD GUYS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYSaeU5qC70
https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2096564604646068341

ONE GUY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpWxamM96bg&t=31s
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/08/26/trans-protestor-has-self-defense-hearing-over-drawing-gun-in-laramie-street/

BODY COUNT

https://www.dailymail.com/health/article-16044311/massachusetts-governor-maura-healey-abortion-law.html
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-how-the-american-population-map-will-shift-by-2050/
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2026-08-12_09-25-50.png?itok=Ogu-3AuJ
https://archive.ph/LaP2e

VOTE COUNT

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XgSnP_KD_CU
https://www.michigannewssource.com/2026/08/michigan-sheriff-receives-whistleblower-allegation-state-software-automatically-registering-noncitizens-to-vote/
https://www.themidwesterner.news/2026/08/citizen-only-voting-initiative-faces-monday-canvassers-vote-after-staff-recommends-rejecting-petition/
https://ballotpedia.org/When_states_can_begin_processing_and_counting_absentee/mail-in_ballots,_2022

CIVIL WAR

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1984801376
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/a-second-civil-war-and-the-country-fractured-in-two-thats-the-imagined-future-in-author-kurt-andersens-new-novel-xexbrf/
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/30/socialists-fight-aoc-2028
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-plot-to-sabotage-jd-vance-2028-prospects
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/style/america-is-atomizing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4VA.1iQ7.eLCo7EZHLM8d&smid=url-share
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/socialist-leader-says-quiet-part-out-loud-affordability-pitch-masks-guerrilla-class-war
https://modernity.news/2026/08/09/uk-intelligence-warns-of-civil-war-plot-against-migrants-convenient-demonisation/
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/magazine/national-blackout-power-electricity-outage.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6VA.oPoZ.in0JSEQwfHWI&smid=url-share

Tinder© Tramps, InstaThots®, And The Attention Sump In Your Pocket

“I’m bored!  I’m bored and I’m getting eaten by mosquitos.  I’m being eaten.  And I’m bored as well.” – The Grand Tour

I got a free iPhone© and a free iPad® today!  Pistols are magic!

I had my previous cell phone for nine years: from August of 2017 to August of 2026.  That’s a good run.  I bought a fairly nice one back in the day, and took good care of it.

I lie.  Somehow the screen cracked in November, 2020, so I had to make sure it stayed dry.  The old phone did its duty.  I would still be using it, but it’s full, and there are a number of faults going on that make me think that it is time.

On the advice of Pugsley, I swapped over from the Mao People’s Phone© (Android™) to the Fascist Fisher-Price™ phone (Apple©).  I know, it sounds nuts.

What a difference 10 years has made in technology!  Steve Jobs once said that he wanted the iPhone© to feel so sexy that people would be tempted to lick it.  This 17th version is a tightly integrated piece of technology.  I mean, I haven’t licked it, but that doesn’t mean that I’m not WiFi-curious as to what licking it would feel like.

I used to live on Mars®, but decided that was way too much chocolate.

Civilization has been on a downward slide since, oh, whenever they started welfare and started encouraging poor stupid people to make more poor stupid people by paying them to be poor and stupid.  Incentives matter.  Welfare was bad, but the iPhone© really took societal collapse from “Hiroshima” to “full Tsar Bomba”.  Never go full Tsar Bomba.

The iPhone© is the problem.  It allowed interaction on a scale never before seen, and was the platform that empowered Tinder© tramps to seek out Chad to be used for a night and InstaThots® to feed their narcissism.  That was bad enough, but it also became the attention sump, turning every waking moment into a distraction.

Distraction and dopamine hits are what the iPhone® was built to deliver.  I’ve only had mine a week, but a friend indicates that it is also an amazing device for having Apple® to sink their fangs into my credit card and suck as hard as I’ll let them.  They monetize everything.

Like?

Location.  How fast I drive.  The number of steps I take in a day (not enough) and how steady my gait is (very).

Someone stole all the fruit from my farm in Georgia, that leaves me peachless.

The last two are maybe going to be a net benefit for me, as I can certainly see myself always wanting to be above average, so soon enough I’ll be walking 100,000 steps a day.  Well, me and Jason Arday.

Too soon?

The phone is designed to distract, designed to turn every bit of life into a consumption event.  With a dizzying array of apps pre-built in, it’s almost intoxicating flipping through the pages of things I could be doing right this second instead of . . . wait, why did I pick the phone up in the first place?  Oh, yeah, got distracted.  Oh, a notification!  The Mrs. let the dogs out!

How does Jeff Foxworthy kill werewolves?  With a silver mullet.

The first time I went to Las Vegas the sounds and sights were overwhelming after a few hours.  I think that’s the point, but that was also in a world mainly free of the Internet back in 1997.

It may seem like a super-power, but it is a pretty useless superpower, like having the ability to retract my fingernails or hair back into my body.

What is nice, though, is that it tracks and graphs which apps I’m using and when I’m using them, and the option to tell the phone to remind me, “Wilder, time to shut this damn thing down and go to bed”.

That has actually been a positive for me.  I shut down the distraction device, pick up a book, and read.  I’d already gotten through a novel or non-fiction book every other week since the start of the year (last two:  C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy, Sweterlitsch’s The Gone World, current:  Hawkins’ The Library at Mount Char), but the other alternative is to be bored.

I read a biography of JFK.  The end was mind blowing.

I avoid brooding and regret since they are a horrible ways to program yourself to think, and a trap that should be avoided.

Besides, boredom is useful.

Boredom is that innate spark in humans, that makes us feel uncomfortable in sitting in a warm, dark room, well fed, with low effort.  Boredom pushes us to create, to learn, to invent.  The first person to figure out a bow-drill or decided that stacking rocks in a pyramid shape might be cool or that being the first guy to make it to the South Pole was a good thing.

Boredom is also why some animals die or refuse to mate in captivity.  Our full-on stimulation world might be part of the reason that mating seems to be no longer as important to many of the young in 2026.

HR was upset with my urine sample.  Apparently they only want them when they request them.

People aren’t meant to be continually distracted.  We are supposed to be bored sometimes because for at least tens of thousands of years that was our default programming.  Boredom forces us to change.

A society based on waiting for someone else to distract us is madness.  Like licking an iPhone©.

Yay!  More microplastics in my testicles!  That’s nuts!

Liberty Without a People, a Border, or a Moral Center Is Just a Corridor

“I’m definitely a libertarian.  Consenting adults want what they want, and if I’m not supplying it, they will get it somewhere else.” – Breaking Bad

So, I checked out an Ayn Rand book at a public library . . .

To give context to what follows, I was a Libertarian.  Yes, a capital “L” version, which is what this post is about.  I had the card and everything, and this was back when I had to use MS-DOS® to get anything done.  C:/DOS.  C:/DOS run.  Run DOS Run!

It was also before Libertarianism became rabidly open border and I was always more of a nationalist than a libertarian, so there’s that.  I have since realized that libertarianism is a road only to globalism, socialism, and gay communism in 2026.  Honestly, libertarianism in the United States doesn’t work for any date past, say the 1880s or so.

Let me elaborate.  I’ll start by being fair and noting that not every libertarian believes the same exact things, because the difference between a libertarian wedding and a libertarian funeral is one less opinion.

First, let’s explore the concept of the basic unit of society.  As I’ve mentioned before, the basic unit, the atom of society is the family, not the individual.  Individuals don’t reproduce unless they’re lower forms of life like paramecium, which only accounts for bankers and Hollywood© executives, and most politicians.  Last I checked, only a man and a woman can reproduce.

A friend ordered a bride from Eastern Europe.  Sadly for him, the Czech is still in the mail.

Libertarianism, like communism, is based on freedom and the removal of constraints.  What constraints?  Well, family, religion, tradition, ancestors, culture, border, community, and hierarchy.  The first thing the reds did when they took over Spain was burn the churches, kill the nuns, and abolish marriage.

Let me assure you, Francisco Franco was far too kind to these people when he won.

Libertarianism, like communism and globalism, depends on Homo Economicus.

What’s a person?  Well, one Homo Economicus is very much like another.  So much so, that they have the same desires, the same wants, the same potential, the same value.  In extremes of this viewpoint, they even have the same intellectual potential.  Don’t know if you’ve noticed it, but smart kids very, very rarely come from dumb parents.  Idiocracy was right in that respect.

I knew one person who was so dumb they tried to drown themselves on a pool table.

Is it any wonder that rabid Libertarians and Communists both want open borders and free trade?

The problem is that ripping out family, religion, tradition, ancestors, culture, border, community, and hierarchy removes all of the intermediate steps that prevent communism or GloboLeftism from even existing.  If you view your nation as something given to you on loan by your ancestors to bequeath to your kids, well, that’s an entirely different mindset than “Let’s go shopping at Wal-Mart© or let in infinity foreigners for cheap strawberries”.

These institutions and traditions, and, yes, collective beliefs that Libertarianism wants to remove are the real anti-communist and anti-globalist technology.

Where Libertarianism is strongest is against the state as a monopolist of violence and against price controls.  To be clear, when the firearm was invented, the state monopoly of violence disappeared, and they knew it.  The idea of how governments should be configured was in play.

And this occurred in Europe.  Why Europe?  Because European nations typically had a dominant state religion, a national people, a single language, borders, and some with ancestors going back thousands of years in the same plot of land.  These people had all of that in common, and could therefore ask the question of, “how should we set up a government?”

Europe refuses to put caps on new immigrants.  I thought the French had an excess of berets?

As an example, if the Founding Fathers had consisted of Somalians, Indians, and Nigerians, they would have just spent their time in tribal warfare against each other.  No, the Founding Fathers were mainly Welsh, Irish, Scottish, and English.  Franklin was pretty sure the Germans were suspect.  The United States wasn’t conceived for moslims.  Nope.  It was conceived for a predominantly white, Christian, moral people with low time-preference, trust, honesty, deferred gratification, and a shared sense of ownership of the nation as a whole.

And Libertarianism was okay for that group.  Don’t like the rules in Pennsylvania?  Move west to Ohio.  Don’t like the rules in Ohio?  Move west to Utah.  I mean, move there if you’re Mormon.

This might have continued to work okay, but we ran out of land, and we started importing people from cultures that atomized the nation.  And slavery.  That was a stupid idea.  Guys, always pick your own cotton.  And your own strawberries.  And write your own programs.

Soon enough, we had “the oppressed” and “the marginalized” which are fodder for a client class for socialists.  Add in the Libertarian desire to remove every cultural constraint as an “illegitimate barrier to trade” and you get, well, chaos.  Honestly, you get India after you’ve spent down the cultural inheritance of what was formerly a nation.

What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?  A carrot.

Free trade doesn’t mean free to trade anything, it means trade free from coercion.  Libertarians spend forever and a day criticizing closed borders, tariffs, vice laws, industrial policy, and cultural constraints that have made it into law.

But HR?  The credentialization of every job?  Payment processors excluding people based on politics?  Universities spewing out carbon-copy socialists?  Social media where people aren’t even allowed to utter the phrase “Great Replacement”?  NGOs?  Asset managers?

Everything a company does is fine.  That’s free trade.

No!

Marxism 1.0 wanted the party to own everything.  Now, GloboLeftism is fine with private ownership.  The companies and the media do the heavy lifting and shift coercion into forms that don’t look exactly like the “State” that Libertarians love to hate.

Libertarianism fails because it calls collective self-defense “collectivism” when America is being assailed by collectives of Indians and Mexicans and moslems and other groups that all have a collective strategy to protect themselves at the expense of the rest of society.  If you try to get a job in certain sectors of the economy, if you don’t speak Spanish, aren’t a Brahmin, don’t bow to Allah, or don’t go to synagogue, well, you’re never going to get that job.  They’ll pick people more like them.

When a strip club shuts down for the night does the sign say, “Sorry, we’re clothed”?

Markets really are the main engines of prosperity, but random, chaotic markets aren’t the predictor of economic success, it’s the people.  In Sweden, all adopted (non-European) foreign children perform well below the norm on IQ tests.  Except the Koreans.

Go figure.  People make a difference.  I’d rather live in socialist all-Dane Denmark than in multicultural Johannesburg.

Libertarianism fails because it cannot generate or defend the particular social order that limited government requires.  Full stop.  The Founding Fathers didn’t spring forth from a Libertarian Eden.  Nope.  They were forged in plain-old British values.

Liberty without a people, a border, and a moral center is a corridor, and corridors get occupied by whoever shows up, and whoever owns the institutions.  Limited government isn’t a software package that works on any computer, it is very particular on what platforms it works.

So, don’t treat it like a software program and skip to the end and hit, “I agree.”

Top 15 Everyday Acts That Used To Be Normal And Now Count As Counter-Revolutionary.  Number 8 Will Make Your Spleen Explode!

“I mean, every part of a kaiju sells.  Cartilage, spleen, liver.” – Pacific Rim

How do you stop two blind bums from fighting?  Yell, “My money is on the guy with the knife.”

Number 1:  Telling a child “no”.

Children are not small adults.  Children’s feelings, for the most part, don’t matter.  We don’t let children drive, buy booze, select their own menu, or make life altering choices.  “No” is a complete sentence, and learning limits is required since no child is born with discipline:  that has to be learned.  And, that over time with enough discipline and effort, no can be turned into yes.  Corollary:  letting kids lose is important for similar reasons, because life is complex enough that they will lose.  Plus, I love to see them cry when I crush them in chess.

Number 2:  Demanding that visitors and new arrivals to our country follow our norms, not their own.

When I visit a friend’s house, do I walk to his fridge, open up a beer, impregnated his wife, and then demand to be given the remote control so I can watch what I want instead?  No, unless my friend is a GloboLeftist.  They don’t seem to mind.  And they don’t seem to mind it when foreigners do exactly that when visiting or invading our country.  Moslem women should feel shame when wearing their desert clothes in the United States, and Mexicans should be embarrassed that they don’t speak English.

The population of Modern Mayberry never changes.  Every time a girl gets pregnant, a guy leaves town.

Number 3:  Not pretending that fat women are attractive.

Yes, some people are fat.  Exactly zero of them are healthy, and exactly zero of them are more than a 3 out of 10.  I bring women as the rule, because no one has ever pretended that fat men are attractive.  It’s just (my guess) the feminine desire to reduce mating competition by telling their fat friends to “never change, you’re lovely as you are” so they can have a better chance at banging Chad.

Number 4:  Not letting your son quit.

Quitting is an addictive drug, because once a kid quits and sees no immediate repercussion in his life, it’s setting the stage for a lifetime of quitting.  And no one likes a quitter, except my doctor when it comes to me drinking.  And I keep telling him, if I’m a quitter, that will make me a hypocrite.  I’d tell you more but . . .

I’m throwing “son” out here in rule 4, but you could (I suppose) put in a daughter, but don’t try to sell me on suffrage for women.  That ship sailed over the horizon after they started celebrating murder moms.

When it failed, he was beside himself.

Number 5:  Looking down on “consumers”.

“Consumers” should be shunned.  There is no virtue in purchasing.  As Mojo Nixon musically noted:  You can’t buy cool.  You also can’t buy virtue.

Number 6:  Expecting young women and men to marry and have children.

This is their job.  If young women want to wreck society by having lazy girl jobs, they won’t like it so much when they’re cold, catted, chardonnayed, and unChaded.  This will revert, because if it doesn’t civilization will collapse.  My solution is to drop the drinking age to 18 and encourage illicit keggers in forests.

You know, for the kids.

Is something that looks like pasta, smells like pasta, and tastes like pasta but isn’t pasta an impasta?

Number 7:  Keeping your word, especially when it is painful.

Keeping my word is important to me, because the biggest pains in my life came from when people didn’t keep their word.  And me, if I promise to do the dishes, I promise, I’ll do the dishes.  There is no need to remind me every six months.

Number 7:  Understanding that legality and morality are not the same thing.

When the entire basis of a society is based on the exact letter of a law, you end up with infinity Indians scamming airports to get wheelchairs to jump the line or “buying” a punchbowl from Costco©, using it for the party, and returning it when the party is over.  These are people without honor.  This failure is not the complete explanation of why India is like it is, but it’s part of the explanation.

Number 9:  Acting like the country you live in was built by your ancestors and owed to their descendants.

A female lawyer in New York who wants to tell me that a “refugee” from Kheezewhizistan is just as American as my family, who have been here since before the Revolutionary War, is lying.  She’s trying to give away something that’s not hers to give, and we’re not mad enough about it.

We’ll know Europe is healing when the part of Europe taking in the most refugees is the Mediterranean Sea.

Number 10:  Saying, “I don’t know.”

I’ve observed that the best leaders with the strongest sense of self are unafraid to ask people to explain things, and to admit when they don’t know something.  I’ve also observed that people who know everything invariably don’t.  TrUSt tHe sCieNce!

Number 11:  Thinking that honor, bravery, and integrity should be the norm.

They should be the norm.  There’s a reason they started making fun of Boy Scouts©, then infiltrating them, then destroying them.  The Boy Scouts™ was a wonderful force to create good men, which is the last thing the GloboLeftElite want.  So they killed it.

Number 12:  Thinking as much about responsibility as liberty.

Responsibility is the brother of keeping your word.  It’s keeping promises you haven’t even made.  It’s investment.  Liberty is easy.  Responsibility is hard.

If we arm the teachers, will the librarians get silencers?

Number 13:  Teaching children that, yes, they will be judged by their table manners.

It’s true.  They don’t have to use them every moment, but they have to know them.

Number 14:  Admitting when you were wrong without explanation.

This is similar to number 10, but a step farther.  It goes beyond ignorance into error.  People who personalize and defend their errors are evil.  Maybe even Evil.

Number 15:  Incorrectly numbering a list.

The Passing Of The American Empire?

“Our planet was once a powerful empire, peaceful and just.” – Transformers

One of the brothers fell down the stairs at the Empire State Building.  I guess that’s Wong on so many levels.

The United States sits at the center of the largest empire the world has ever seen.  Certainly, that empire is now slipping.  But let’s review my first assertion.

Is the United States an empire?  I mean, I was expecting more trumpets and purple robes.

Yes, it is.  The definition of an empire is that it cuts across most fields of human life for vast groups of diverse people, having authority over them, economic control, and cultural influence.

Yes, we’ve got that.  The United States is the inheritor of the mantle of the leading partner in Western Civilization.  Before us was Great Britain, paving the way and making it easier for us.

How can we be sure that we’re still in an empire?

English is spoken everywhere.  Sure, thank the Brits, but the reason they kept speaking it is because it is, by far, the most widely used language in the world.  If I got off a plane in Lanzhou or Lillehammer, I could get by without knowing any local languages and rely entirely on English to get me by.  Sadly, English is no longer spoken in London or Los Angeles, and my Arabic and Spanish could use some work, so I’d be out of luck there.

So, language.

Sign language can be very handy.

What about centralized authority and governance?  Trump is certainly showing that, although the United States pretended to not be the big cheese because France hates that, it really was the big cheese all along.  There’s nothing that Europe can do alone to remotely influence the United States.  Nor can Japan.  In fact, all those hundreds of United States military bases around the world?  Yeah, if a country has one of those, it’s an American client.  At one point we had more than 850 bases in 90 countries.

That’s an empire.

Also, economically.  In Rome you could use the denarius (not Daenerys, who was a hot chick with dragons and not a coin, according to Google©) to buy almost anything you wanted anywhere in the empire.  In the world today, you can use a dollar anywhere they take money and not shrunken heads, and also in some places you can trade dollars for shrunken heads.

I was really effective when I worked for the suicide hotline.  100% of my callers never needed to call back.

Finally, cultural and ideological leadership.  Why did they have a “no kings” protest in Canada, where they have a king?  Why did they have BLM® marches in places in Europe where there are no blacks?  Why did Botswana legalize gayness in 2019?  Why is every little tinpot dictator called a “President” instead of a “Prime Minister”?  I mean, if I were a tinpot dictator I’d call myself, “Sovereign Lord and King John Wilder the First, Flayer of Men, Defender of the Faith, Scourge of India, and Former Costco™ Member”.

You always have to throw in something silly.  I mean, I’ve never even been to Costco®.

Rome proved at the Teutoberg Forest that you don’t need to win every battle to remain an empire.  You can suffer astonishing defeats and go, “Well, that stung,” and keep on with the empire.  I mean, Rome never really went after the Germans with the intent to subjugate them after that battle.  The Germans, however . . .

I once won a large rock, paper, scissors bet.  I made money hand over fist.

But, of course, Rome didn’t face the technological evolution of warfare to the extent we’ve seen in the last 20 years, which greatly levels the playing field between the United States and other countries.  The great advantage the Romans had was their empire to draw men from, and their mastery of transport engineering and logistics which could quickly, as measured in 100A.D., put 10,000 men where their enemy wanted them least.

Spain, however, did experience technical obsolescence in its final humiliation of empire.  In 1898, the United States was a rising power.  The United States wasn’t quite ready to challenge Great Britain in 1898, but it did see Spain.  What did Spain have?  Oh, overseas colonies, colonies that could help the United States grow in the natural direction of the country:  the Pacific.  Sure, it came with a short-term rental of Cuba and a long-term lease on Puerto Rico, but the real prize for the United States was Guam and the Philippines, which still looks like it has one too many of the letter “p” in it.

This addition got the United States a leg up in the last part of aligning non-Western nations and established a firm gateway to Asia and military base for projection of force throughout the Pacific.  We were, in fact, willing to fight an 11-year war against the Filipinos and develop the M1911 in .45ACP to kill drugged out Filipino guerrillas, because a .38 just wasn’t enough.

I digress.

The reason the United States utterly defeated Spain in less than four months was it had an intense technological and logistical lead in every facet of warfare.  The numbers speak for themselves:  4,119 American casualties versus somewhere near 56,500 dead Spanish.  Oh, and the Spanish ships were still sporting cannon over a century old.

My friend’s dad was in a union.  Every story began, “Once upon a time and a half . . . “

Spain was dead as an empire, only waiting for someone to knock it over, take its stuff, and buy something nice for themselves.  That was the United States.  By the time of the Spanish-American War, the United States fighting Spain was the geopolitical version of a velociraptor taking on a kitten.  The only way the kitten survives is if the velociraptor gets all the kibble.

Where are we now?

Are we Rome?  Are we Spain?

Both analogies are suspect, since I don’t trust either Italians or Spaniards.  Too much wine in both countries, and I know how I am after one too many bottles of pinot:  I’m in a lot of economic trouble, personal danger, and I can’t remember my past.

Is the United States, like Rome, just taking another L that won’t matter because we’re still the empire?  No, I think we’re not.  I think we’re beyond the peak of American hegemony, which probably happened on August 15, 1987 while I was throwing a kegger.  Woo!

I had a French duck, but you can’ardly tell.

Is the United States, like Spain, passing?  Again, no, I don’t think so.  We are seeing that some of our main weapons date to designs of nearly 70 years of age.  I’m looking at you, B-52.  The reason is that the bomber is dead to anyone who isn’t living in mud huts, and we realize that.  The B-52 would have been awesome in 1945 but now is just a target.

And we realize that.  I think we’ve realized that with our aircraft carriers as well, and now understand that wars in a time where satellites can provide real-time targeting make big ships filled with thousands of sailors liabilities rather than assets.

Remember this:  no matter what happens, we still irritate the hell out of France.  We’ll always have that.

Narcissism And Jason Arday

“There’s a suggestion of acute narcissism, a complete lack of empathy.” – Sherlock Holmes, A Game of Shadows

Arday didn’t know much about sociology, but he said he could explain the Dunning-Kruger effect better than anyone else.  (All memes this post are as-found.)

Jason Arday is not pining for the fjords.  He has joined the choir invisible and is now an ex-academic.  During his career and, indeed, his lifetime I cannot see anything useful he did or anything of value he contributed to humanity other than developing a technique to make his skin shiny.  Beyond that, it appears that the only impact he had, at all, was in allowing liberal white ladies over the age of 40 to virtue signal when they were around him.

Arday was a construct of Arday.  It appears that whenever his mouth was moving he was either lying or popping out a nonsense group of syllables intended to make himself look “smart”.  Paraphrasing Matt Walsh, smart people make complicated things seem simple, dumb people make simple things seem complicated.

Arday was in the latter, but that is part of being in academia.  Academics have to create a jargon that they use among themselves to make it difficult for regular people to understand.  Otherwise, regular people would realize how full of shit they are.

Arday fit right in.

Jason Arday announced in a press release that he invented a new word for the English language:  Plagiarism. 

Yet, among a group that is often the fakest of the fake, Arday became perhaps the biggest fake in all of academia.  And they closed ranks around him, and continue to close ranks around him.  Why?  Because if people look too closely, they might start to ask, “what is sociology and why is it considered more of a real science than, say, predicting the future by interpreting the size and shape of Obama’s moles?

But back to Arday.  Why lie.  I mean, he was the youngest black professor in the history of Cambridge®, which is the third-oldest operating university in the world, if you exclude Hogwarts©.  So, he could have kept quiet and put his head down and lived the good life of academics pretending to be important, drinking nice booze, and eating all the bacon-wrapped shrimp he wanted.

That wasn’t Jason’s plan.  No.  He’d go full retard, and do things like responding to someone asking about sentence similarity between one of Arday’s papers and one of another academic with, “Instead of spending your time trying to dismantle racism and ableism, you have spent what I assume is hours combing through my work looking for mistakes.”

Ha!

See that?  If you question Arday you are a racist.  And a bully.  And probably sick and a mean ninnypooper.  He closed with, “Anything further from you will be considered bullying and harassment.”

Note that Arday never said the critic was wrong, just racist, and I guess that makes black people immune from anything in 2026.

Is a group of Karens called “a migraine”?

At some point, Arday had to see that the writing was on the wall.  I mean, he had, for over a decade, put out lie after lie.  And these weren’t lies like, “no, your butt looks fine in those pants” that were unverifiable.

No.  He claimed to have been a professional soccer player for a top-level team in the UK.  That he had a brain tumor.  That he raised millions of pounds (appears to be a metric currency with “£” as the symbol) for charity.  Claimed to have run 30 marathons in 35 days, one while having a broken leg.  Claimed he couldn’t read until he was 18.

Arday never lied to his radiologist, he knew the radiologist would see right through him.

None of these lies really got Arday anything except attention from middle-aged white liberal women who would believe anything Arday said.  Anything.

But, apparently, that’s what got Arday off.  He simply could not stop lying throughout his entire life.  And it worked.

Until it didn’t.

Finally, there had been enough time since St. George of Floyd died, and people finally started asking questions about all the lies and plagiarism coming from Arday.  Now, it could be asked, and one Nathan Cofnas asked the question, “But how much of ‘the most ridiculous story ever told [the way Arday describe his story – JW]’ is true [emphasis in original]?”

Of course, Cofnas could not be allowed to besmirch the honor of George Floyd Jason Arday.  So, Cofnas was put on probation after Arday’s suicide (and Cofnas thinks he’ll be fired) reportedly at the orders of Petra De Sutter, the transgender Belgian gynecologist (man pretending to be a woman) who runs the University.

Yes, this is the most 2020s story, ever.

Wait until the protesters find out there’s a place called the Black Sea.

At the core, though, I think the reason why Arday chose to leave this mortal coil is his narcissism.  He was adored by middle-aged leftist white ladies wherever he went.  He was a glistening black basset hound whose large eyes seemed to echo their sympathy back to them.  “Oh, I know you’re a racist, and I know that you know you’re a racist, but I love you anyway.”

I heard one podcast he was on where he made the (white GloboLeftist) host cry by telling him how important he was to young black men.  Did Arday give examples?  No.  He just kept softly cooing how important this man’s radio show had been.  Why was it important?

Don’t know, he didn’t say.  But, trust me bro, you made a difference.  In this case, it was Arday’s narcissism being weaponized against a soft lefty who just wanted his virtue to be recognized.

One, like Arday, who builds a life on lies is afraid of one thing:  Truth.

I’m betting that Arday didn’t write this one, but maybe one that was nearly identical.

And, thanks to Cofnas, it came rushing in.  Cambridge© had to wait until it was undeniable and inevitable to move.  Multiple investigations were started into Arday, since it seemed that his lies were too much even for the hard-GloboLeft bacon-wrapped shrimp eaters at Cambridge©.  Maybe they were worried that he’d expose the grift and no more shrimp?

Regardless, to Arday it must have been the worst.  Every lie that he made (as in, everything he ever said, likely) would be categorized and dissected and he’d have to retire to the board of directors of some GloboLeftist organization determined to import millions of non-whites into Britain and turn them into narcissists, too.

No, that wouldn’t happen.  Arday would make himself bereft of life because, for him, the lie was the point.  He could not live life without the love and adoration and admiration for things that he had never accomplished.

Arday was a construct of Arday, and lived and died as a lie.  Except for the shiny skin.  I mean, how the heck did he do that?

Companies Hate You

“Hello, can we have your liver?” – The Meaning of Life

On weekends sometimes I drink water, you know, to keep my liver guessing.

In 2018, a Goldman-Sachs© researcher asked the question:  “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?”  This was in relation to what should be considered great news, a company coming up with a one-shot cure for hepatitis C that was over 90% effective.

Where is the profit in making people better?  As someone who depends on my precious liver to take abuse like a housewife in Egypt every Friday and Saturday night, I’m all in favor of things that keep them healthy.  But it doesn’t make sense to Goldman™, because they’d much rather have me be an income stream forever than solve my problem.

This is an example of a world where the Libertarian ideals fall apart, precisely because they presume the lowest common denominator when it comes to morality in society.  There are many flaws with Libertarianism, and this, along with optional personal bodily hygiene intervention are two big ones.  I mean, it isn’t a violation of the non-aggression principle to request they replace the mustard-coated shirt, is it?

A friend of mine stole a lightbulb once.  He said it was because he was in a really dark place.

Let’s look at other places where the free market falls apart.  What about Tinder™?  What happens if Tinder© brings together a guy and a girl and they fall in love and get married and stay married for the rest of their lives?

Tinder® loses two customers.  Forever.  It is not in the algorithm’s interest to make people happy.  It’s in the algorithm’s interest to get two people to meet and not like each other.  Wait, better yet, to like each other superficially enough that they hook up and then both feel hollow and empty inside, driving them to find someone a little closer to what they want.

Yes.  That’s what Tinder© would like best in the whole world.  Unhappy people swiping on their product, generating revenue.  It’s sad, especially because a 9 or 10 guy will break down on a dry-spell Friday night and swipe on a 4 woman, bang her, and now she thinks that she’s worthy of a 9 or 10.  So, she stays on Tinder™ waiting on Prince Chad to sweep her off her feet instead of out of her panties.

Tinder™ is profitable, though, so there’s that.  Match Group©, which owns nine other dating apps, made about $3.5 billion in revenue.  They didn’t make that much money because people got married and abandoned them.  They get rich because of psychological manipulation and the destruction of fertility.

He was sad, he said she was matadorable.

Also in this group with Tinder©?  Social media that feeds your outrage.  I’ve written about quite a bit, and won’t retract a syllable.  While we’re on software, Tinder© is freemium, but there’s worse.  There’s SaaS.

SaaS SuckS.

What’s SaaS?  “Software as a Service”.  Remember the “you won’t own anything, and you’ll love it” soy-face guy with an expression of, “I hope my wife’s boyfriend likes this chai latte I made him”?  Yeah, that’s where this fits in.

I bought Microsoft© Office™ a decade ago.  I had to re-buy three years ago when I bought a new computer.  Couldn’t find that pesky key.  Yes, I know there are free alternatives, but it was worth it to me.

Anyway, I bought it for $149.99.  It costs $99.99 a year.  I’ve already made back almost $150.00.  Well, $150.00 if you round up because pennies in 2026 are as common as black Cambridge© professors that can read.  What Microsoft® really wants, though, is for me to be a customer forever, paying each month, like a little software child that shows up for its allowance and then runs off to the shareholder meeting.

How often do airplanes crash?  Most of them, just once.

And, to do this, they’re willing to sacrifice and continually make the software worse with teams of Indians hired to, well, I guess be Indian and dispose of their trash in National Parks.  How will they pay those H-1Bs in their eternal quest to make your software worse?  With your monthly payments.

It’s not just Microsoft©, but many other software companies like Adobe® are out there, sniffing around your credit card.

But there was a time when at least some people realized they could get rich by being good.  Crazy idea, that.  An example?

Henry Ford famously raised the daily wages of his workers, doubling them while cutting the hours worked each day from 9 hours to 8 hours.  To be fair, his desire wasn’t entirely due to altruism.  He had to hire about 50,000 people a year to keep 14,000 making cars.  In reality, doubling wages ended up lowering Ford’s© cost and doubling his profits.

There was a catch.  To qualify for the full wage increase, you had to be a married man properly supporting your family, or a man over the age of 22 who could prove they were thrifty.  Your wife couldn’t work.  She had to stay home.

I accidently glued myself to my autobiography.  It’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.

What a monster!  Ford wanted to make sure that his company produced quality American families based on quality American values.  Of course, he got sued.

Today?  It’s a race for the bottom wage by companies that don’t see the United States as their home, just a profit center or division.  And, it has spread.  Universities are now attempting to hire H-1B volleyball coaches making less than $50,000 a year.  Why?  Because no American understands volleyball?

No.  Because they can get someone cheaper.  The idea is that jobs in Missouri should have wages based on Mogadishu or Mumbai.  Jobs in Nevada should compete with Nairobi or Nigerian wage levels.  As pointed out in the last post, when men don’t get raises, women don’t make babies.

It’s a simple way to replace a people, but only after you’ve made them poor.  Medicine should make people feel better, and a cured patient, is better than one on a perpetual prescription.  Unless you’re Goldman-Sachs©.

I just found out I’m colorblind.  Boy, that came out of the orange!

Them?  They want my liver to stop working.  Not entirely, just enough that I have to pay them every month to keep it going, while using crappy software, surrounded by unmarried Gen Zers who can’t get jobs because they’re not from Punjab.

Libertarianism might not be dead, but it’s dying since the only people foolish enough to buy it can’t afford the mortgage on their liver.

Know Your Enemy

“I am not a number. I am a free man!” – The Prisoner

The GloboLeft and the GloboLeftElite are not tied to the countries they live in.

Instead, they are tied to their class.  A professor from Boulder can glide into a conference in London or Paris or D.C. and feel exactly the same:  the same polite applause, the same correct opinions, the same network of people who went to the same schools, read the same journals, and never once had to fix a carburetor.

The nice hotel room, the brandy, and the bacon-wrapped shrimp taste identical whether the view is of the Flatirons, the Thames, or Islamabad on the Seine.  These people deal almost exclusively with other members of their class.

Our daughters have to be sacrificed.

That is who they are loyal to.  They are largely unelected yet have an outsize impact on your life, like Anthony Fauci or the CEO of Disney®.  And it’s also elites in virtually every facet of life.

An example:  the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

In 2024 their financials showed $180.4 million, 81.8 percent of their operating revenue, came from government contracts and grants tied to illegals and refugees.   Why are we inundated with illegals?  You’re paying to be inundated with illegals.  The illegals and refugees stream across the border in unending numbers because we paid for them to come here.

For the Catholic hierarchy the calculation is simple:  mOaR Catholics, regardless of where they come from or what they believe outside of their first Holy Communion.  Now, I don’t want to be a killjoy to the bishops, but St. Thomas Aquinas would beg to differ.  Aquinas actually cared about the common good of a particular people in a particular place.

The modern bishops appear to care more about the grant pipeline.

When your funds allow hordes of illegals and other foreigners to finally show up, their very presence funds the GloboLeft again.  More students who don’t speak English equals more jobs for predominantly GloboLeftist teachers and interpreters.  More violence in schools from poorly adjusted foreigners equals more jobs for counselors, social workers, speech therapists, and cops.

The entire apparatus expands.

The GloboLeft does not merely tolerate the invasion; it metastasizes it into salaries, pensions, and moral superiority.

I remember a conversation with a perfectly credentialed GloboLeftist who looked me in the eye and said, with complete sincerity, “Well, if we don’t have them (illegals) here, the cost of strawberries will go up!”

Yes, yes they will.  And the job of picking them will go to an American.  Without the influx of illegals it could be one of those heavily-credentialed parasites who have burrowed into the system and now find actual labor beneath them.  The strawberries will still get picked.

Let’s see the response . . . .

It is not only the obvious GloboLeftElite.  Recently Senator John Curtis of Utah, “Republican” Senator John Curtis got body-slammed in the comments on X® because he wants to import more foreigners through a state-sponsored visa scheme complete with a quiet pathway for long-term illegals.

Republicans won’t vote to stop it.  Many of them are already in the club, or they desperately want the membership card.

I guess no one in Utah is smart enough to run a hotel desk.

The bacon-wrapped shrimp is excellent, have you tried it?  Do you really think John Curtis will ever vote to send them home?

This is the deliberate dismantling of the old labor market filled with independently minded people who can still remember a nation that was not an open-air hotel for the world’s surplus population.  Those people sound dangerous, they sound like they may not support the government.

The people don’t support the government?  Easy solution: import different people.  To make it stick, let’s also pull heritage Americans out of the middle class.  People in the middle class have pesky opinions, spare time, and haven’t been worn down so they still have enough energy to make trouble.

If they were desperately poor, they’d complain less.  Heck, why stop there?  If you want a civilization to disappear, the easiest method is to pay their women more money.  They will happily take the lazy-girl jobs, postpone children indefinitely, and die surrounded by boxes of Chardonnay and pristine, unused wombs, ending family lines.

(h/t Vox Day LINK)

They also, on purpose, fail to go after certain criminals.  Those Flock© cameras blanketing the suburbs are not primarily aimed at inner-city gang members, cartel drug dealers, or illegals.  Those crimes are useful to the GloboLeftElite.  The cameras exist to track and punish the middle class.

Don’t believe me?  In Great Britain, murderers routinely receive lighter sentences than people who publish mean tweets.  When’s the last time a black murderer was charged with a “hate” crime?

This is policy.

The GloboLeftElite need the middle class to comply, and they need the anarchy from below to justify their own continued existence as managers of the chaos.  The violent and the non-productive are their power base and their enforcers while the middle class represent the last pool of money they haven’t sucked up.  After they’ve done that, they’re desperate to replace you.

How desperate are they?  They will import people from countries whose average I.Q. would make a decent room temperature if you happened to be wearing a sweater. This is the root of the competency crisis you see every day:  airplanes that crash, ships that smash bridges, and schools that don’t teach.

They do not care.  It does not impact their lives one bit.  The conference circuit continues.  The brandy is still poured.  The bacon-wrapped shrimp is still tasty.

The GloboLeftElite are not traitors to their countries in the old sense.  They simply no longer have countries.  They have a class, a set of hotels, and an endless supply of other people’s children to feed into the machine.

A machine that runs on shrimp, apparently.